Welcome to you!

Let me start by saying thank you for visiting here, it’s nice of you to give a little bit of your time to read this blog. Nowadays, social media and blogging have become common, so I decided to give it a shot myself.

First of all, let’s go for content. It will be about my passions for the food industry, retail, and the professional aspects around it.

Secondly, I had to make some realistic planning. I want to stay committed to bring you regular updates and posts. Especially, I need to keep working on my professional projects, and this is all me. Research, translations…all these take time and I want to do it qualitatively.

A little bit about me

At the start of my career, I chose for the path of self-employment and entrepreneurship in FMCG and Consumer Brands. My career started in the challenging world of the trade press at. At the editor I worked for, I contributed to reinvent the strategies and methodologies of the company, and set up the sales team, of which I quickly took the lead. This experience gave me a great overview of the FMCG and Retail world.

To further enhance my experience, I entered the field-marketing world where I continued to use my sales skills. In that period I gained operational experience and knowledge in organising instore promotions, and sales and merchandising teams.

To ensure my network’s expansion and to always stay abreast of the latest trends, I make sure to attend any major events of the sector.

Nowadays, I handle several retail and sales related projects as independent consultant. But my focus in the very near future will be to set up a distribution platform for brands in the Benelux.

What to expect, and don’t forget to react

So expect topics about concepts, some data, and quite an important part of our industry: trade fairs and conferences. I believe strongly in these networking events. It’s on the field that you will make contacts, real business contacts and, experience and learn the latest trends.

Sincerely, I hope you will enjoy the reading, and find it useful.

Also I hope that you will not hesitate to send me your feedback or requests. That’s what the page contact is all about.

About

Welcome to you! I am Vincent Panneels.

Thank you for visiting. Do you want to get in touch? Are you organising something that might be interesting for these pages and my readers? Or do you just want to chat? Excellent! You just need to use the form or write to blog@20100retail.be

Thank you for visiting. The world of Retail and its events have always been a passion of mine. Follow my adventures and findings on these pages. And don't hesitate to contact me if your projects could be interesting for my readers, or simply if you want to chat.